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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Second livre d'architecture Contenant plusieurs et diverses ordonnances de cheminees, lucarnes, portes, fonteines, puis, & pavillons, pour enricher tant le dedans que le dehors de tous edifices View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorAndrouet du Cerceau, JacquesHeadlineAndrouat's architectural and interior designs, 1561PublisherDe L'Imprimerie d'André WechelDate Published1561 Lot #5 Aristotle's Art of Poetry. Translated from the original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston's edition. Together, with Mr. D'Acier's notes translated from the French View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle’s Poetics, first edition in English, 1705PublisherPrinted for Dan. Browne and Will. TurnerDate Published1705 Lot #8 The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse... [bound with] Æsopics: or a Second Collection of Fables... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorÆsopHeadlineOgilby's Aesop, parts 1 & 2, 1668PublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 Lot #10 Chimie photographique, contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par les manipulations photographiques. -Les procédés de photographie sur plaque, sur papier sec ou humide, sur verres au collodion et à l'albumine. -La manière de préparer soi-même, d'employer tous les réactifs et d'utiliser les résidus. -Les recettes les plus nouvelles et les derniers perfectionnements. -La gravure et la lithophotographie. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorBarreswil, [Charles Louis] et [Alphonse] DavanneHeadlineDefinitive volume on photographic chemistry 1854PublisherMallet-BachelierDate Published[1854] Lot #14 The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Beer)Author[Ellis, William]HeadlineThe London and Country Brewer 1759 EditionPublisherT. AstleyDate Published1759 Lot #17 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1683PublisherPrinted by John HayesDate Published1683 Lot #19 Der Antichrist und die fünfzehn Zeichen Faksimile-Ausgabe des einzigen erhaltenen chiroxylographishen Blockbuches [The Antichrist and the Fifteen Signs. 2 volumes: Facsimile and Commentary] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Block books)HeadlineDer Antichrist, block book facsimile 1/650PublisherPrestel-VerlagDate Published[1970] Lot #23 Four early papers on optics by David Brewster in "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXV View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorBrewster, DavidHeadlineFour papers on Optics by David BrewsterPublisherW. BulmerDate Published1815 Lot #24 Logarithmicall arithmetike. Or Tables of logarithms... [bound with] Arithmetica Logarithmica, sive Logarithmorum chiliades centrum... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorBriggs, HenryHeadlineBriggs & Vlacq on logarithms, 1631 & 1628Date Published1631 & 1628 Lot #29 Poems. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And, The Ghost, in Four Books. [Bound With] Poems. Containing The Conference. The Author. The Duelist. Gotham, In Three Books. The Candidate. The Farewell. The Times. Independence. And, Fragment of Journey View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 Lot #33 A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineCollier's English Stage 1698PublisherPrinted for S. Keble... and H. HindmarshDate Published1698 Lot #37 Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Origin of SpeciesPublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 Lot #38 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man, handsomely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 Lot #40 Cours Entier de Philosophie, ou Systéme General Selon les Principes de M. Descartes Contenant la Logique, la Metaphysique, la Physique et la Morale View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Descartes, Rene)AuthorRegis, Pierre SilvainHeadlinePhilosophies of Descartes 1691PublisherHuguetanDate Published1691 Lot #47 All For Love: or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal; and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile 1st Edition View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineDryden's All for Love 1st ed. 1678PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1678 Lot #53 Sitzungsberichte der Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften - containing official announcement of Albert Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Science View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlineEinstein resigns from Prussian Academy, 1933PublisherVerlag der Akademie der WissenschaftenDate Published1933 Lot #81 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Italian History, 22 vols. 1704-1725PublisherVander AaDate Published1704-1725 Lot #82 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Siciliae... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Sicilian History, 15 vols. 1723-1725Date Published1723-1725 Lot #85 The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant, and other Instruments. With a Canon of Artificial Sines and Tangents to a Radius of 10.00000 parts, and the Logarithms from Unite to 10000: The Uses whereof are illustrated in the Practice of Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Dialling, and Fortification. And some Questions in Navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, Teacher of Mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorGunter, EdmundHeadlineThe works of Edmund Gunter 1673PublisherA. C[lark] for Francis EglesfieldDate Published1673 Lot #88 The Complete Measurer: or, the whole art of measuring. In two parts. The first part teaching decimal arithmetick, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: And also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches, commonly called Cross Multiplication. The second part teaching to measure all sorts of superficies and solids, by Decimals; by Cross-Multiplication, and by Scale and Compasses... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHawney, WilliamHeadlineHawney's Complete Measurer 1763PublisherPrinted for J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1763 Lot #92 [Opera. Ilias & Odyssea. In Greek] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineFoulis edition of Homer in Greek, 1756-58PublisherExcudebant Robertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1756 & 1758 Lot #94 Songes and Sonettes. Written By the Right Honorable Lord Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorHoward, Henry, Earl of SurreyHeadlineEarl of Surrey's Sonnets, 1717PublisherRe-printed by E. CurllDate Published1717 Lot #104 Aufrichtig Teutsch redender Hebräer, welcher gründlich zeiget den Ursprung und die Schicksale des jüdischen Volcks View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Judaica)AuthorBodenschatz, Johann Christoph GeorgHeadlineJewish life in 18th century GermanyPublisherMartin GobhardDate Published1756 Lot #109 The Royal Gauger or Gauging Made Perfectly Easy as it is Actually Practiced by the Officers of His Majesty's Revenue Of Excise in Two Parts View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLeadbetter, Charles.HeadlineLeadbetter's Royal Gauger 1760PublisherC.Hitch and L. HawkeDate Published1760 Lot #111 A Treatise on Painting...Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. To Which is prefix'd, The Author's Life; Done from the Last Edition of the French View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeonardo da VinciHeadlineDa Vinci's Treatise on Painting 1721PublisherJ. SenexDate Published1721 Lot #112 Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomyPublisherThomas Bassett, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John CurchillDate Published1690 Lot #113 Pleasure with profit: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineMathematic & scientific recreations, 1694PublisherPrinted for Richard Baldwin, and John DuntonDate Published1694 Lot #114 Lyttilton tenures truelye translated into Englishe View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorLittleton, Thomas, SirHeadlineThe 1st textbook on English property lawPublisher[Thomas Marsh]Date Published1556 Lot #127 The Catalogue of Honor or Treasury of True Nobility Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine: that is to say: A Collection historicall of all the Free Monarches aswell Kinges of England as Scotland (nowe united togither)... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilles, ThomasHeadlineMilles' Catalogue of Honor, 1610PublisherPrinted by William JaggardDate Published1610 Lot #130 Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum. S. Pii V. Jussu editum. Clementis VIII. et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate Recognitum. Et Novis Missis ex Indulto Apostolico Hucusque Concessis Auctum. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineHandsomely bound 18th century missalPublisherTypis Sacræ congregationis de propaganda fideDate Published1714 Lot #134 A Treatise of Gauging: Or, the Modern Practical Gauger Containing Besides All the Principal Rules Usually Given on the Subject, a Great Variety of New and Interesting Improvements...Illustrated with Necessary Examples View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMoss, ThomasHeadlineA Treatise of Gauging 1779PublisherPrinted for G. RobinsonDate Published1779 Lot #135 Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Napier, John)AuthorKnott, Cargill GilstonHeadlineTribute to mathematician John NapierPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1915 Lot #136 An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Napier, John)AuthorStewart, David & Walter MintoHeadlineStewart & Minton's Life of John Napier father of logarithmsPublisherR. Morison and Son, et alDate Published1787 Lot #137 De Arte Logistica View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorNapier, JohnHeadlineThe father of the LogarithmPublisherImpressum EdinburgiDate Published1839 Lot #138 Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorNapier, MarkHeadlineMemoirs of the inventor of LogarithmsPublisherWilliam Blackwood and Thomas CadellDate Published1834 Lot #147 Äther und relativitäts-theorie: rede gehalten am 5. mai 1920 an der Reichs-universität zu Leiden View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein lecture on RelativityPublisherJulius SpringerDate Published1930 Lot #148 Thermodynamische Begründung des photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's photochemical equivalence lawPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1912 Lot #149 Ein vermeintlicher Widerspruch des magneto-optischen Faraday-effectes View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineMax Planck examines the Faraday EffectPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 Lot #150 Three papers by Max Planck, in Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 1 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineSeminal papers in Planck's Quantum TheoryPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 Lot #151 Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)AuthorSchrodinger, ErwinHeadlineColor theory by Erwin SchrodingerPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1920 Lot #175 Glossarium archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; quae post labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque res Europaeas, in ecclesiasticis, profanisque scriptoribus... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSpelman, HenryHeadlineEnglish antiquarian investigations 1664PublisherAliciam WarrenDate Published1664 Lot #194 Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates: Quibus inserta est Pestiferae adversus Dei Gratiam à Pelagio Britanno in Ecclesiam inductae Haereseos Historia. Accedit Gravissime Questionis De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione & Statu Historica Explicatio View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorUsserio, Jacobo [Ussher, James, Archbishop Of Armagh]HeadlineUssher's account of the Church 1687PublisherImpensis Benj. TookeDate Published1687 Lot #198 M. Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis poetae, & Albae Episcopi, Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorVida, Marco GirolamoHeadlineVida's poetical works, 1537PublisherPer Balthasarem Lasivm & Thomam PlatterumDate Published1537 Lot #199 Trigonometria Artificialis: sive magnus canon triangulorum logarithmicus, Ad Radium 100 000,00000, & ad dena Scrupula Secunda. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorVlacq, AdriaanHeadlineThe first table of logarithmic trigonometric functions.PublisherPetrus RammaseniusDate Published1633 Lot #205 A Defence of M. Perkins Booke, Called A Reformed Catholike: Against the Cavils of a Popish writer, one D.B.P. or W.B. on his Deformed Reformation View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorWotton, AnthonyHeadlineAnthony Wotton, A Defence of M. Perkins Booke 1606PublisherFelix. Kyngston, for C. BurleyDate Published1606 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next